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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 82, NWS Tampa Bay, FL

July 29, 1996Sarasota County, Florida

NWS Tampa Bay, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 29, 1996, 4:53 PM EDT for Sarasota County, Florida. It was in force for 37 min. 3 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued
Jul 29, 1996, 4:53 PM EDT (20:53 UTC)
Expired
Jul 29, 1996, 5:30 PM EDT
In force
37 min
Issued by
NWS Tampa Bay, FL
Area
Whole counties

County Sarasota County, FL

The radar

The Tampa radar (KTBW), 58 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:53 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jul 29, 5:00 PM EDTHail 0.75Venice, FL
Jul 29, 5:00 PM EDTThunderstorm WindVenice, FL
Jul 29, 5:00 PM EDTThunderstorm Wind 66Venice, FL

NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.

The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Florida, 1996Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1996

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.